University staff have voted in favour of industrial action in two disputes, paving the way for strike action in the coming months if management does not agree to improvements to pensions, pay and conditions

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15 September 2021

Scrap tuition fees - end university marketization

The Covid pandemic has laid bare the marketised tuition-fee model

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19 May 2021

Students and unions must resist misnamed 'free speech' bill

The Tories are attempting to position themselves as defenders of free speech in their new Higher Education (freedom of speech) Bill

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24 March 2021

Fighting sexual harassment and gender violence on campus

Given the appalling rates of sexual harassment and violence on university, college and school campuses, it is no surprise that young women and students have been at the forefront of recent protests and vigils called in response to the murder of Sarah Everard.

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24 March 2021

Police invade student homes

As if we students did not have enough to deal with - facing a lack of university support, and paying extortionate rent for rooms we haven't been able to live in - we now might get a midnight visit from our local bobby

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24 February 2021

Tories target universities in free speech shakedown

The government recently announced plans to introduce a 'Free Speech Champion' to the board of the Office for Students to regulate the approach to free speech on England's university campuses

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10 February 2021

Why you should come to Socialist Students online conference

Socialist Students in Wales initiated rent strikes in Bangor and in Swansea at the beginning of term

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3 February 2021

Socialist Students open letter to Rent Strike network

Building the fightback for free education

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20 January 2021

Refund student rent and fees

Socialist Students has launched a petition to build support for its demands on the way forward for the student movement and to solve the crisis in higher education.

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20 January 2021

Scrap fees, refund rents and pay a living grant

Right up until the last minute, the university seemed to be endlessly optimistic about how we could return this term for in-person teaching

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6 January 2021

Refund the rent, cancel the fees, for fully funded, publicly owned education

With the new lockdowns, what can students expect for the rest of the academic year?

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6 January 2021

University teaching moves online in England

Like in the rest of education, university staff and students are left in disarray by this consistently inconsistent and incompetent Tory government.

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2 December 2020

Rent strikers' victory in student halls

Students at the University of Manchester won a 30% refund of their rent for the term

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2 December 2020

Solidarity with Brighton UCU strike - we won't pay for Covid crisis

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18 November 2020

Tories student 'evacuation' plan won't work

The government plans to allow students in England to travel for Christmas

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11 November 2020

Solidarity with Manchester students - fight for democratic control of campus safety

Socialist Students sends solidarity to students at the University of Manchester (UoM), who through their protests, have ensured the removal of two-metre high security fences designed to pen them in

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21 October 2020

Disabled students let down by "rotten education system"

The UK's capitalist university system is rotten to the core. Universities' prime aim is not to provide education for students - but to generate income for their vice chancellors and management

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